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Rita Levi-Montalcini - Autobiography
Autobiography. My twin sister Paola and I were born in Turin on April 22, 1909, the youngest of four children. Our parents were Adamo Levi, an electrical engineer and gifted ...
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Rita Levi-Montalcini (born April 22, 1909 [1]), Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI [2] is an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize ...
Biography: Rita Levi-Montalcini
Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini was born into an intellectual, though traditional, family in Turin, Italy in 1909. Her father believed that a career would interfere with a ...

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Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909- ), Italian-born American biologist, born in Turin and educated at the University of Turin Medical School. She shared the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the American biochemist Stanley Cohen for their contributions to the understanding of growth factors (see Growth Factor) in human development. Levi-Montalcini was cited for her discovery of the factor that promotes the growth of cells in the peripheral nervous system. Cohen, her student, discovered epidermal growth factors. In 1947 she moved to the United States; she became a citizen in 1956.